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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"storm drain"”.
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Auto repair shops' perspectives on storm drain protection
… volumes of products that can be washed into storm drains. The purpose of the study was to learn this sector's needs in adopting storm drain best management practices. Semi-structured in-person interviews were conducted with business owners to identify barriers, challenges and opportunities to …
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Extracting curbside storm drain locations from street-level images
… machine vision procedure to identify and extract storm drain locations from natural images along surface street curbsides. Existing storm drain infrastructure information is commonly reposed by managing agencies in either paper or digital format. Access to these data for urban hydrologic and …
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Biofilms as sources of fecal bacteria contamination in the stormwater drainage system in Singapore
… contamination originating from within the stormwater drainage system in Singapore. The extent of fecal bacteria presence in storm drain biofilms was evaluated as a pathway for fecal bacteria contamination. In the research, biofilms were evaluated as reservoirs for fecal indicator bacteria …
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Burn Fortune: The Real June not Marvelous Enough for Us
… an altar to Jean and Joan in an underground storm drain. Offered their lives as alternatives to her own, June is left to wonder: Can anyone truly transcend their circumstances, or does having a dream mean death?</p>
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The evaluation of metham sodium and dichlobenil impacts on activated sludge nitrification
… to remove tree roots from municipal sewer and storm drain lines. One or more of the chemicals in this process, or their degradation products, have been suspected of disrupting the nitrification process in waste treatment plants downstream of the points of application. This work was undertaken …
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Removal of hydrocarbons from urban stormwater runoff by gravity separation
Three rain events were sampled from a storm drain at Manassas Mall in Manassas, Virginia. The urban runoff samples obtained were placed into lab-scale Plexiglas~ settling columns to monitor removal of total hydrocarbons (THC) by extended quiescent settling. Samples were collected from the columns …
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Creating A Stormwater Runoff Model For The City Of Oxford, Mississippi: When It Rains, Where Does That Water Go?
… load and causes flooding. To correct this, storm water management is needed in the city. This stormwater runoff model uses data collected from rain gauges, soil data from ssurgo and published soil infiltration rates from a Lafayette County soil survey, impervious cover created from Lidar and …
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Regulatory and Economic Consequences of Empirical Uncertainty for Urban Stormwater Management
… mitigation of the ecological effects of urban stormwater runoff has been delegated to local government authorities through the Clean Water Act's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systems' Stormwater (NPDES SW), and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) programs. These programs require that …
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Effect of urban street pattern on drainage.
In cities, storm runoff is usually collected in the streets and conveyed to underground storm drains through inlets located at street level. Construction and maintenance of storm drain systems is always expensive. In semiarid regions with a very low frequency of storm occurrence, most cities use …
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Disentangling entanglement in Cape fur seals for better management of plastic pollution impacts
… of most entanglement items, although a large storm drain that enters the harbour from central Cape Town probably also contributes to the problem. Key management interventions include education programmes targeting harbour employees and fishermen about the adverse impacts of marine litter, and …
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Hydraulic efficiency of grate and curb inlets for urban storm drainage
Stormwater runoff from an urban landscape is typically conveyed through networks comprised of streets, gutters, inlets, storm sewer pipes, and treatment facilities. Objectives of this research program included evaluating the hydraulic efficiency of three storm-drain inlet types and developing …
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Effects of Using Clay Nanoparticles as a Soil Amendment to Remove Nitrate from Stormwater
… natural ecosystem and the pathways for water to drain into downstream water bodies. As the amount of impervious area increases, pollutants can accumulate on the surface and enter the water cycle by stormwater. In most cities, the stormwater flows into a storm drain that is discharged into a water …
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Sustainable Suburbia: A New Development Model for Fallow Suburban Residential Sites
… for supplying the site with water, sewer, storm drain, electricity and gas utilities. Using an individual home as a benchmark, the research will look at house and lot size in relation to demographics and use patterns, determine the demand for land and utilities, and then develop an …
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Evaluation and Enhancement of the Performance of Drop Inlets
… along U.S. Highway 50 in the Clear Creek Drainage Basin near Carson City, Nevada which are maintained by the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT). The maintenance requirements can be significant since large quantities of traction sand are routinely applied to this section of highway …